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"nightly news" begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >> good evening. for the folks who have moved to an all-electronic web-based life, today's news maybe wasn't all that impactful. but for the folks with mailboxes in cities and towns across this country on dirt roads or in apartment buildings, there's always been mail on saturday. six days a week, since the time of abraham lincoln. but today the u.s. postal service says delivering the mail on saturdays must stop. if they are to survive. it's one of two american institutions in the news tonight for differing reasons in changing times. we want to begin tonight with nbc's tom costello in glen echo, maryland. tom, good evening. >> reporter: hi, brian, no secret the postal service is up to its neck in red ink, handling 30 billion fewer pieces of first class mail today than just four years ago. and guess what? delivery of packages booming because we're all buying stuff online. this action is about just trying to keep the lights on. for people all over america, like 71-y
"nightly news" begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >> good evening. for the folks who have moved to an all-electronic web-based life, today's news maybe wasn't all that impactful. but for the folks with mailboxes in cities and towns across this country on dirt roads or in apartment buildings, there's always been mail on saturday. six days a week, since the time of abraham lincoln. but...
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>> we were actually -- this was a proactive effort by the "new york times." we knew the story was coming out. we knew there had been warnings about publication of the investigation into wen jiabao's relatives would quote/unquote have consequences. so our security team notified at&t which monitors our network full time to look out for unusual activity and we notified them a day before the story published and the day the story went online at&t got back to us ansaid tt ty had noced that at least three of our computers were communicating with command-and-control servers that they knew had perpetrated attacks on other companies before and that they believed were being coordinated by the chinese military. >> suarez: from this monitor, were you able to tell, it was paper able to tell, what whoever was doing this was looking? were they just rooting around showing they could do it? what was the purpose? >> originally we didn't know what they were after. the timi of the attas wh the investigation of the story gave us some sense but they were very active in the week aft
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hospital in new york. >> good morning. i'm ed koch, and i'm running for mayor. how am i doing? >> sreenivasan: ed koch was most at home on the streets of manhattan. a quintessential new yorker, the larger than life koch, who ran city hall from 1978 to 1989, was best known for shepherding new york out of financial ruin, restoring the city's finances through tough budget cuts, and improving its decaying subway system. but he insisted his biggest personal achievement was rallying new yorkers through the 1980 transit strike that crippled the city. still, as homelessness and aids soared in the '80s, his response was criticized. and the city was roiled by racial tensions amid the beating deaths of two black teenagers at the hands of white gangs. during the 1988 presidential campaign, koch ignited controversy saying jews "would be crazy" to vote for jesse jackson. but koch told the "macneil- lehrer newshour's" charlayne hunter gault jackson was provoking people. >> i've been the mayor here for 11 years. for ten years, prior to th
hospital in new york. >> good morning. i'm ed koch, and i'm running for mayor. how am i doing? >> sreenivasan: ed koch was most at home on the streets of manhattan. a quintessential new yorker, the larger than life koch, who ran city hall from 1978 to 1989, was best known for shepherding new york out of financial ruin, restoring the city's finances through tough budget cuts, and improving its decaying subway system. but he insisted his biggest personal achievement was rallying new...
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states like florida but in new york and illinois and california. so this is an ongoing challenge that it doesn't address and it will be a problem going forward. >> woodruff: paul howard, you said you think it was mostly done for political reasons. why do you say that? >> well, you have to governor facing reelection, as you noted, next year, with low approval ratings right now. he's also moved recently to give bonus payments to state workers and to teachers. i think he saw this as a moment to try and reach across to the center or to the left there florida and boost his reelection chances. it's an enormous flip-flop for the governor given the stance he took earlier against obamacare and the medicaid expansion. it looks to be purely politically expedient. >> woodruff: ron pollock, coming back to you on this question politics. do you believe, as mr. howard does, that that's the reason? >> well, it's a factor. why would a governor from florida say to his citizens "we're going to spend tax money, we're going to send it to washington and that money that g
states like florida but in new york and illinois and california. so this is an ongoing challenge that it doesn't address and it will be a problem going forward. >> woodruff: paul howard, you said you think it was mostly done for political reasons. why do you say that? >> well, you have to governor facing reelection, as you noted, next year, with low approval ratings right now. he's also moved recently to give bonus payments to state workers and to teachers. i think he saw this as a...
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so for the areas, new york city on south it is a formidable storm, about 6 to 10 inches around new york city but the worst of this storm right up here in boston and new england and it could be historic. >> brown: well, historic. we talk about, we use that word, we throw that around a bit. how historic. how does this compare to other storms that you have covered? if you take a look at the all time snow records for boston it's 27.6 inches of snow back in february of 2003. that a possibility. it may run just short but that is a possibility. they can break that, providence 28.6 inches. we could get awfully close to that. portland may get close to the 27 inches here so this is a storm that i think for many locations in southern new england will be a top five storm as far as snowfall production. but let's remember we have that wind tonight. and this is already shut down travel. and it will shut down travel across southern new england. you're going to see lots of wild weather, boston, providence, hartford. you'll see snowfall rates 1 to 3 inches per hour, blowing snow, white outs and thunder a
so for the areas, new york city on south it is a formidable storm, about 6 to 10 inches around new york city but the worst of this storm right up here in boston and new england and it could be historic. >> brown: well, historic. we talk about, we use that word, we throw that around a bit. how historic. how does this compare to other storms that you have covered? if you take a look at the all time snow records for boston it's 27.6 inches of snow back in february of 2003. that a...
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media companies-- the "new york times," bloomberg news, "the wall street journal," and the "washington post"-- have all said the chinese are behind sustainehacking attempts on them. and earlier this week, the "washington post" reported that the intelligence community now believes the u.s. is a target of a major cyber espionage campaign, with china as its most aggressive perpetrator, seeking to steal data for economic gain. to counter these efforts, president obama announced a new initiative. >> i signed a new executive order that will strengthen our cyber defenses by increasing information sharing and developing standards to protect our national security, our jobs, and our privacy. >> suez: the national cyber- security and communications integration center is in northern virginia. it's the department of homeland security's premiere cyber-space monitoring facility. this command center receives information from companies like at&t and verizon, and watches over the government's information networks. lawrence zelvin, the center's director, says the president's order will make it easier to
media companies-- the "new york times," bloomberg news, "the wall street journal," and the "washington post"-- have all said the chinese are behind sustainehacking attempts on them. and earlier this week, the "washington post" reported that the intelligence community now believes the u.s. is a target of a major cyber espionage campaign, with china as its most aggressive perpetrator, seeking to steal data for economic gain. to counter these efforts,...
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in new york last week, the city school teachers pension fund sold off $13.5 million it held in stock with five gun makers. that followed action in california where the state teachers retirement system also stripped itself of $11.7 million of investments from three gun manufacturers. and the golden state's $254 billion public employees retirement system is also deciding whether to withdraw the $5 million worth of shares it holds in two companies. in chicago, mayor rahm emmanuel focused on banks, asking t.d. bank and bank of america to stop financing gun manufacturers. chicago's gun violence has placed it in the center of the national debate. michelle obama attended the funeral of hadiya pendleton who was shot to death near her school days after marching in the presidential inaugural parade and pendleton's parents joined mrs. obama as her guest at the state of the union speech last week. president obama returned to his hometown last week to stress the need for action on gun violence. >> last year there were 443 murders with a firearm on the streets of this city. and 65 of those victims
in new york last week, the city school teachers pension fund sold off $13.5 million it held in stock with five gun makers. that followed action in california where the state teachers retirement system also stripped itself of $11.7 million of investments from three gun manufacturers. and the golden state's $254 billion public employees retirement system is also deciding whether to withdraw the $5 million worth of shares it holds in two companies. in chicago, mayor rahm emmanuel focused on banks,...
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john burns of the "new york times" fills us in. >> brown: and we close with a conversation with a master of the short story, writer george saunders. >> for me, the approach has become to go into a story not really sure what i want to say, trying to find some little seed, crystal, an interesting sentence or an image that leads to an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >>his ograwas de possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: president obama made his first second-term foray outside washington today, with a call to stop gun violence. it was part of a campaign
john burns of the "new york times" fills us in. >> brown: and we close with a conversation with a master of the short story, writer george saunders. >> for me, the approach has become to go into a story not really sure what i want to say, trying to find some little seed, crystal, an interesting sentence or an image that leads to an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major...
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and that has its own dangers. >> suarez: michael sokolove writes for the "new york times," profiled oscar pistorius for the magazine. thanks for joining us. >> you're welcome. >> woodruff: finally tonight, a 70-year-old love story told in letters from president lyndon johnson to the woman he wanted to marry. released today by the l.b.j. presidential library in austin, texas, the more than 90 letters showed the impatience of a man so taken by claudia alta "lady bird" taylor that he proposed the day after they met in september 1934. and just weeks later, he wrote: to which she replied: in audio recorded in 1978, lady bird johnson described her dilemma at the time. >> i was almost perfect willing to say let's be sure we get married in a year, but he would say that no, if you wait that long, if you don't love me enough to marry me now., you won't a year from now, it will be enough to keep me in a turmoil and make life unbearable for a long time and then well slip away some how. >> woodruff: johnson's persistence paid off, after a two-and-a-half month courtship, the couple wed in november 1934
and that has its own dangers. >> suarez: michael sokolove writes for the "new york times," profiled oscar pistorius for the magazine. thanks for joining us. >> you're welcome. >> woodruff: finally tonight, a 70-year-old love story told in letters from president lyndon johnson to the woman he wanted to marry. released today by the l.b.j. presidential library in austin, texas, the more than 90 letters showed the impatience of a man so taken by claudia alta "lady...
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in chicago, new york and san francisco. more than 100 air control towers at smaller airports could be closed, lahood said. airlines likely would cancel flights. and congress, he said, would hear of the fallout. >> it's not only the impact on the passengers, it's the impact that it has on airports, control towers, people who work there, airports. and their phones are going to start ringing. why does this have to happen? nobody likes a delay. nobody likes waiting in line. none of us do. if we can't get our hamburger within five minutes, if we can't get on the plane within 30, 40, 50 minutes after going through, you know what happens. they start calling their member of congress. >> suarez: more now on these latest warnings, the republican response and the timing of these possible cuts. lisa rein is following this for the "washington post" and she joins me now. lisa, in recent days senior members of the obama administration have laid out an exacting detail all the terrible consequences that the sequester goes through while repu
in chicago, new york and san francisco. more than 100 air control towers at smaller airports could be closed, lahood said. airlines likely would cancel flights. and congress, he said, would hear of the fallout. >> it's not only the impact on the passengers, it's the impact that it has on airports, control towers, people who work there, airports. and their phones are going to start ringing. why does this have to happen? nobody likes a delay. nobody likes waiting in line. none of us do. if...
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randall pinkston, cbs news, new york. >> the storm is pushing warm weather to the southern states, but that could spawn tornadoes. don't want those. >> and spring storms have everything. they have the heavy snows, heavy rains, and severe weather. >> thunder snow. they had reports of thunder snow in wichita. >> that's awesome. that's awesome stuff. >> we don't have any of that. we have no thunder snow or thunder rain. we have pretty good areas of steady and heavy rain pushing through the metro area. let's start with a live look outside. it is our live michael and son weather cam. it is dark outside. here we go. 44 was the high so far. now it's up to 45. temperatures are going to be steadier rising all night. we have winds easterly at 20. restriction on the bay bridge because of winds. a warning until 11:00. our winds even downtown are gusting in the 30-mile per hour range. we're looking at a tough commute home. not as bad as the midwest, but a tough commute home. we have snow from detroit back through chicago up to madison and back into iowa. and that's what is left of the big storm. se
randall pinkston, cbs news, new york. >> the storm is pushing warm weather to the southern states, but that could spawn tornadoes. don't want those. >> and spring storms have everything. they have the heavy snows, heavy rains, and severe weather. >> thunder snow. they had reports of thunder snow in wichita. >> that's awesome. that's awesome stuff. >> we don't have any of that. we have no thunder snow or thunder rain. we have pretty good areas of steady and heavy...
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biden also met with new york city mayor michael bloomberg, whose super-pac spent two million dollars in ads that attacked candidate kelly's opponents for their n.r.a. support. >> brown: online, we have extended coverage of the gun control debate, including new data that reveals some common ground on approaches to stemming gun violence. >> ifill: now, to a debate over where and how we work. this week, marissa mayer, c.e.o. of the tech giant yahoo! announced the company will stop its employees from working at home. the move made headlines around the country, sparking conversations about whether mobile technology helps or hurts productivity. for our own debate on who benefits from flexible work schedules, we turn to john sullivan, a professor of management at san francisco state university. he advises employers on hiring and human resource practices. and micheline maynard, a regular writer for www.forbes.com. she is a long-time reporter on american industry and its workforce. and, as it happens, has worked from home for more than a decade. john sullivan, is this move about getting all h
biden also met with new york city mayor michael bloomberg, whose super-pac spent two million dollars in ads that attacked candidate kelly's opponents for their n.r.a. support. >> brown: online, we have extended coverage of the gun control debate, including new data that reveals some common ground on approaches to stemming gun violence. >> ifill: now, to a debate over where and how we work. this week, marissa mayer, c.e.o. of the tech giant yahoo! announced the company will stop its...
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of new york and i.b.m., students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate's degree in computers or engineering. we need to give every american student opportunities like this. and four years ago... ( applause ) four years ago we started race to the top, the competition that convinced almost every state to develop smarter curricula and higher standards. all for about 1% of what we have spent on education each year. tonight i'm announcing a new challenge: to redesign america's high schools so they better equip graduates for the demands of a high-tech economy. and we'll reward schools that develop new partnerships with colleges and employers and create classes that focus on science, technology, engineering, and math. the skills today's employers are looking for to fill the jobs that are there right now and will be there in the future. now even with better high schools, most young people will need some higher education. the simple fact that the more education you've got, the more likely you are to have a good job and work your way into the middle class. but today's skyr
of new york and i.b.m., students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate's degree in computers or engineering. we need to give every american student opportunities like this. and four years ago... ( applause ) four years ago we started race to the top, the competition that convinced almost every state to develop smarter curricula and higher standards. all for about 1% of what we have spent on education each year. tonight i'm announcing a new challenge: to redesign america's...
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we are joined by ashley parker, who covers congress for the "new york times." and, cindy southworth, a long- time advocate and vice president of the national network to end domestic violence. welcome to you both. ashley parker, the republicans, when they originally objected to this legislation back a year and a half ago, what objections did they have and were those objections accommodated? >> the issues they had about a year and a half ago were they didn't want to go as far as the senate bill had gone which was extending protections to members of the l.g.b.t. community and to native american women and interestingly these were basically the same objections that we saw this time around, although this time they obviously managed to work them out. >> woodruff: so what happened was not so much that the language was changed but the number of republicans changed their position? >> well, what happened was eric cantor first started -- the republican leadership decided that politically, especially after the 2012 elections where they sort of took a drubing with female vot
we are joined by ashley parker, who covers congress for the "new york times." and, cindy southworth, a long- time advocate and vice president of the national network to end domestic violence. welcome to you both. ashley parker, the republicans, when they originally objected to this legislation back a year and a half ago, what objections did they have and were those objections accommodated? >> the issues they had about a year and a half ago were they didn't want to go as far as...
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and a super bowl ad paid for by mayors against illegal guns, a gun-control group, financed by new york mayor michael bloomberg, appealed for background checks for gun buyers. it featured a child narrator and video of national rifle association leader wayne lapierre from 1999. >> the n.r.a. once supported background checks. >> we think it's reasonable to provide mandatory criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. no loopholes anywhere for anyone. >> ifill: the 30-second spot aired on the cbs affiliate that serves washington d.c., but lapeer air repeated yesterday the n.r.a. no longer supports universal checks. >> it's a fraud to call it universal. it's never going to be universal. the criminals aren't going to comply with it. they could care less. >> ifill: he insisted most americans will not buy the president's push for new gun laws. >> they don't want more laws imposed on what is only going to be the law-abiding. they see how little all this has to do with keeping our kids safe and how much it has to do with a two-decade long agenda to just drug out the same old gun
and a super bowl ad paid for by mayors against illegal guns, a gun-control group, financed by new york mayor michael bloomberg, appealed for background checks for gun buyers. it featured a child narrator and video of national rifle association leader wayne lapierre from 1999. >> the n.r.a. once supported background checks. >> we think it's reasonable to provide mandatory criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. no loopholes anywhere for anyone. >> ifill:...
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york. quazi nafis was arrested in october after an f.b.i. sting operaon. prosecutors said he drove a van to the door of the bank and tried to set off what he thought was a bomb. in fact, the van was carrying dummy explosives supplied by an f.b.i. agent. nafis faces 30 years in federal prison. in tunisia, new protests broke out in the capital, demanding the end of the government. it was the second day of unrest sparked by the killing of a leading opposition figure. we have a report narrated by jonathan rugman of "independent television news." >> reporter: in tunis today, crowds converged on the interior ministry on the same spot where the so-called arab spring began two years ago. "the people want the downfall of the regime" the chant once again. but this time the tear gas came from police loyal not to a dictator but to tunisia's democratically elected government, one which now stands accuse of complicity in political assassination. the victim was chokri belaid, shot outside his home yesterd
york. quazi nafis was arrested in october after an f.b.i. sting operaon. prosecutors said he drove a van to the door of the bank and tried to set off what he thought was a bomb. in fact, the van was carrying dummy explosives supplied by an f.b.i. agent. nafis faces 30 years in federal prison. in tunisia, new protests broke out in the capital, demanding the end of the government. it was the second day of unrest sparked by the killing of a leading opposition figure. we have a report narrated by...
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. >> support also comes from carnegie corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what andrew carnegie called "real and permanent good." celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and friends of the newshour. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: it looked like a scene from a movie, but it was all too real. a meteor came crashing down to earth today, triggered a fireball over russia, and sent people running for cover. parts of the meteor fell on the city of chelyabinsk-- population over a million-- about a thousand miles due west of moscow on the edge of the ural mountains. the strike shocked and stunned the world. more than 1,000 people were injured. paul davies of independent television news begins our coverage. >> reporter: emerging from the russian sky, a giant ball of flame, a meteorite providing a spectacular show until it suddenly explodes 30 miles above t
. >> support also comes from carnegie corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what andrew carnegie called "real and permanent good." celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and friends of the newshour. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >>...